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• Two workers were killed and nine others were
injured in a pressure explosion at an RKI Exploration & Production drill
site near Orla, Texas, April 30 while a well head was being installed. – Carlsbad
Current-Argus

• A former manager of the Thatcher Chemical
plant in DeLand, Florida, was charged April 25 for improperly disposing more
than 150,000 pounds of hazardous waste on the facility’s grounds between 2010
and 2011. – Daytona Beach News-Journal

4.
April 28, Daytona Beach News-Journal –
(Florida) State: DeLand-area plant manager dumped 150,000 pounds of
hazardous chemicals. A former manager of the Thatcher Chemical plant in
DeLand was arrested and charged April 25 after a State investigation concluded
he was responsible for improperly disposing more than 150,000 pounds of
hazardous waste on the facility’s grounds between 2010 and 2011. Thatcher
Chemical was fined more than $230,000 by the Florida Department of
Environmental Protection in March in response to improper dumping at its DeLand
facility and a second Florida plant. Source: http://www.news-journalonline.com/article/20140428/NEWS/140429463

• A gas explosion April 30 at the Escambia
County Central Booking and Detention Center in Pensacola, Florida, demolished
part of the building, killed 2 inmates, left more than 100 others injured, and
prompted the evacuation of about 600 prisoners. – Pensacola News Journal

26.
May 1, Pensacola News Journal –
(Florida) 2 killed, dozens injured in Florida jail explosion. An
apparent gas explosion April 30 at the Escambia County Central Booking and
Detention Center in Pensacola demolished part of the building, killed 2
inmates, left more than 100 others injured, and prompted the evacuation of
about 600 prisoners. Authorities are investigating the cause of the explosion.
Source: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/05/01/florida-jail-explosion/8550957/

Financial Services Sector

6. May
1, Philadelphia Business Journal – (Pennsylvania) Former
Villanova basketball star charged with pushing clients into $1.2B Ponzi scheme.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged the former CEO of
Radnor-based Ballamor Capital Management April 30 with fraudulently inducing
his clients into investing around $100 million into a fund that was used to buy
fake lawsuit settlements from a man who was later convicted of running a Ponzi
scheme. When the former CEO’s firm collapsed, investors lost the roughly $100
million of invested funds. Source: http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/morning_roundup/2014/05/sec-charges-former-villanova-basketball-star-with.html

7. April
30, Chicago Sun-Times Media Wire – (Illinois; Indiana; Mississippi) FBI
announces $10K reward for ‘Wandering Bandit.’ The FBI offered a reward
April 30 for information relating to a suspect known as the “Wandering Bandit”
who is thought to be responsible for at least 4 bank robberies in 3 States. The
man is suspected in the robberies of banks in Illinois, Indiana, and Mississippi,
with the most recent robbery taking place at a Heartland Bank branch in
Huntley, Illinois, April 25. Source: http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=9522173

28. May 1, The Register – (International) Staunch your Heartbleed patching:
FreeBSD has a nasty credentials leak. The creators of FreeBSD advised users
to apply a patch that was released after a TCP ordering issue was discovered
which could allow attackers to perform denial-of-service (DoS) or data leakage
attacks. Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/01/freebsd_next_to_leak_credentials/

31.
April 30, KESQ 42 Palm Springs –
(California) Power and phone outages reported across Riverside/San
Bernardino Counties. More than 260 customers of Telepacific Communications,
including Eisenhower Medical Center, news stations, and other businesses, were
without cell service for several hours April 30 after a fiber ring was cut in
San Bernardino. Source: http://www.kesq.com/news/power-and-phone-outages-reported-across-riverside-county/25742194

For
another story, see item 12 below from the Transportation Systems
Sector

12.
April 30, Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel –
(Florida) Fort Lauderdale Airport computer outage reported. A
construction crew accidently cut a fiber optic cable at the Fort
Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport April 30, causing dozens of flights
to be delayed, rerouted, or canceled as well as Wi-Fi service disruption for
passengers in the terminals until crews could repair the cable. Source: http://www.cbs12.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_15460.shtml

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U.S. Army Retired Chief Warrant Officer with more than 40 years in information technology and 35 years in information security. Became a Certified Information Systems Security Professional in 1995 and have taught computer security in Asia, Canada and the United States. Wrote a computer security column for 5 years in the 1980s titled "for the Sake Of Security", penname R. E. (Bob) Johnston, which was published in Computer Decisions.
Motto: "When entrusted to process, you are obligated to safeguard"